On March 30, the Arizona Senate passed HB 2608 by 17-12. It makes it more difficult for Libertarians to get on their own party’s primary ballot. It does not injure the Green Party. The bill will now go to the Governor.… Read more ...

When a state’s governor goes on national television and explains that a bill he just signed into law needs clarification, you know the bill is a troubled piece of legislation.

When state legislative leaders from that same governor’s party hold a press conference to explain that the legislation they just recently passed needs to be revisited and clarified, you know the bill is a troubled piece of legislation.… Read more ...

Our monthly open thread. Post news tips about alt parties and independent candidates, discuss any story that should be posted here but has not yet been posted, or even delve into completely off-topic stuff….just avoid quarantined thread subject matter and things that could get us and/or you into legal trouble such as threats, libel, and copyright infringement.… Read more ...

Wes Benedict has posted this blog post to list state LP conventions for 2015. The list both here at IPR and at LP.org is being periodically updated as we learn of more state convention announcements. I posted this previously but I’m reposting it separately to A) reset the comments (while preserving them) – the issues that led rise to discussions in the previous post’s comment section now have their own articles where they can be discussed, and B) break out Wes Benedict’s offer to speak at state conventions into a separate post.… Read more ...

At Independent Political Report, our mission is to post articles about independents or alternate parties. From time to time, however, an interesting article comes around regarding the philosophy of libertarianism or anarchy, both of which are topics which many of our readers have interest in.

“This last weekend, the Libertarian National Committee met in Phoenix. After a lovely reception Friday evening, organized by the Libertarian Party of Arizona, the national committee members met on Saturday and Sunday. During the meeting, appointments for the Platform, Bylaws, and Credentials Committees were made.… Read more ...

The Greater Philadelphia Socialist Party attended the vigil hosted by the Brandywine Peace Community outside of Horsham Air Guard Station on March 28 2015, with members David Reppert and Marc Train in attendance. Around 30 demonstrators, some who had come in from the Harrisburg area, read off the names of several young victims of military drone strikes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere that has born the brunt of senseless US military aggression, with no regard for innocent lives lost.… Read more ...

The Green party has opened the door to an official endorsement from Russell Brand.

Brand, the controversial comedian and self-styled revolutionary campaigner, made his first explicit remarks about the party publicly – and he was very complimentary:

I think the Green party seem fantastic. If only there were the constitutional reform to make them electable.… Read more ...

]]>http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/03/will-russell-brand-endorse-the-green-party/feed/2Peter Bagge on his experience working with Libertarians and Ron Paul Republicans in Seattlehttp://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/03/peter-bagge-on-his-experience-working-with-libertarians-and-ron-paul-republicans-in-seattle/
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Peter Bagge

Reason’s cartoon-journalist Peter Bagge’s latest report “Life Out on the Political Fringe” (in his usual illustrated graphic-novel style) explores his attempt to work with both the Libertarian Party and Ron Paul Republicans in hyper-progressive Seattle.

Points of interest include Bagge’s perspective on the Libertarian Party of Washington convention, and the mutual hostility between Libertarian Party activists and various factions within the GOP.… Read more ...

On March 24th, members Zach M. And Craig L. of the Socialist Party Los Angeles local assisted the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition in delivering a message to the city’s police commission. Letters were read targeting the affiliations of individual commission members and also highlighted the collective failure of its appointed membership to review numerous breeches of ethical conduct by police.… Read more ...

Workers World Party held its annual International Working Women’s Month forum here on March 21 at the Solidarity Center. The main theme of the program was “Globalize Solidarity against ALL Forms of Women’s Oppression: Why is this important?”

The dialogue began with a panel of women activists involved in important battles for justice and liberation in the U.S.… Read more ...

]]>http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/03/workers-world-party-new-york-forum-globalize-solidarity-with-women/feed/0Eugene Puryear: A Revolutionary Perspective on Why the Left Should Engage in Electoral Politicshttp://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/03/eugene-puryear-a-revolutionary-perspective-on-why-the-left-should-engage-in-electoral-politics/
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Eugene Puryear, a 29 year-old African-American activist, was the vice presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in the 2008 election. He recently ran for an At-Large seat in the DC Council with the D.C.… Read more ...

The Libertarian Party and the Green Party, at this point, are each entitled to presidential primaries in six jurisdictions for 2016. That number could conceivably increase if the parties complete various ballot access petitions between now and 2016 deadlines.

Libertarians have the right to their own presidential primaries in Arizona, California, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, and North Carolina.… Read more ...

Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin will be a featured speaker at Full Circle Venice, a yoga and art collective based in Venice, CA. She will be addressing the need to inspire people to register to vote, run for office as independents, and get engaged in the electoral process, and how building community is important to this movement.… Read more ...